Monday, December 05, 2022 by: JD Heyes
Tags: Constitution, firearm confiscation, firearms, France, French police, French public, gun amnesty, guns, Liberty, living free, Second Amendment, self-defense, unarmed population
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(Natural News) As Americans know, the surest way to create a tyrannical government is
to ensure the general public has no means to resist authoritarian measures.
The French
used to understand this as well, considering that one of the country’s foremost
scholars, Alexis de Tocqueville — author of “Democracy In America,” circa
the late 1700s — was a seminal work in describing the benefits and advantages
of a free, open society.
That included
a favorable analysis of the U.S. Constitution, a truly unique document written
by our founders and ratified by the new states that empowered people over their
government and guaranteed them fundamental rights, like the right to keep and
bear arms (again, so that government could not become too powerful and
tyrannical).
Fast-forward
to the present.
De
Tocqueville is long gone, and the French republic is a shell of its former
self, as evidenced by the thousands of citizens who are now turning in
“illegal” guns to their masters (as if they learned nothing from World War II,
either).
As reported by Breitbart News:
French gun
owners are surrendering their weapons in record numbers at police collection
points across the country as a round up of unlicensed firearms winds down.
France is
keen to limit the number of illegally owned firearms – as many as six million,
authorities estimate – and the Macron government is offering an amnesty in an
effort to limit their distribution.
Rifles,
handguns, ammunition, even knives and grenades, have been handed in at 300
collection points across the country since the start of the Ministry of
Interior’s campaign on Nov. 25.
The report
added that anyone who turns in their guns will not be punished — for now. The
guns will all be destroyed, however.
According to Reuters, by mid-week, some 65,000 guns had been turned in to police by
citizens. That included more than 1.6 million rounds of ammunition and other
“projectiles.”
“This
campaign is here to help French people surrender these objects that are rather
cumbersome for most,” police commandant Florence Gavello said at the collection
point in Nice (which is pronounced NEE-suh).
Other French
authorities shared the same optimism as other Western-aligned countries as far
away as Australia to begin new efforts to take guns away from law-abiding
citizens, thereby putting the defense of their own countries at risk of being
overrun by invading forces (China comes to mind).
“We believe
there are about 5 or 6 million weapons that are being kept in an irregular
manner by our fellow citizens,” noted Jean-Simon Merandat, Head of the Interior
Ministry’s Central Service for Arms and Explosives. “Eighty to ninety percent
of these weapons are in their possession due to an inheritance.”
And
basically, 100 percent of them are not harming anyone or anything except the
consciences of the authoritarians who run the French government.
“When we talk
to them, they’re quite happy about … getting rid of them,” he claimed.
Sure —
because their country isn’t in the process of being overrun at the moment.
The turn-in
ended on Friday. Authorities said that firearms turned in by citizens will
either be destroyed or given to museums.
“With a
population of 67 million people, France has proportionally much fewer guns than
countries such as the U.S.,” Breitbart News reported.
Of course —
they have far less respect for personal freedom in France and as a matter of
habit, French authorities are largely leftists who are used to a generally docile population.
Our founding
fathers got it right when it came to an armed population.
“No free man
shall ever be debarred the use of arms,” Thomas Jefferson noted in the
Virginia Constitution in 1776.
“A free
people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined,” President George
Washington said in his first address to Congress in 1790.
Sources
include:
Source: https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-12-05-french-turning-in-guns-by-the-thousands.html
